Update: people are offering suggestions of how to work around the problems I brought up. My point isn't that the problems are insurmountable, only that it adds

Update: people are offering suggestions of how to work around the problems I brought up. My point isn't that the problems are insurmountable, only that it adds (often unnecessary) complexity and opportunities for inconsistency to the system, and the suggested solutions certainly help to illustrate that. Is's also easy to look at this from an individualist perspective and thin "well, I won't screw that up" and maybe you're right. But what about every single developer in your organization? Are they all going to consider the complexities involved in this system? Are they even guaranteed to be aware of them?